
Over three quarters of Japanese women surveyed admit to faking orgasms – although fortunately a helpful gynecologist has gleefully betrayed her sex to tell men how to spot this.
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A 24-year-old housewife’s desire to remove an ill-advised shoulder tattoo of her cat has resulted in a shockingly grotesque scene – so much so that many were left wondering just what the doctors were thinking.
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NHK has aired a shocking special on schoolgirl prostitution, or “enjo kousai” as the media persists in calling it, going into great detail on the topic – although many have questioned the extraordinarily sympathetic tone the programme adopts, as well as the fact it was aired on morning TV and included some perhaps unnecessarily detailed guidance as to how to decipher the online slang used in the trade…
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Fuji TV may lately be under fire for extreme pro-Korean bias, but fortunately for onsen fans that has not stopped its tremendously edifying Motto Onsen ni Ikou! onsen documentary from providing its usual revealing exposes of Japanese bathing culture…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Japan, News
- Date: Aug 10, 2011 22:38 JST
- Tags: Beach, Bizarre, Crime, Exhibitionism, Fashion, Mizugi, Summer, TV, Voyeurism

A beach-goer caught frolicking and doing handstands whilst wearing an ultra-skimpy micro-sling bikini has once again apparently attracted both police and TV attention.
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An otaku farmer seems to have taken the meaning of “moe” a little too literally (the term derives from the verb “to bud or sprout”) – he has recruited the sukumizu-clad girls of K-ON! to watch over his field.
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Though manga, light novels and visual novels tend to account for the bulk of anime productions, some of the biggest and best loved franchises have been spawned by original anime first appearing on TV – fans provide a fairly convincing ranking of the best.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Galleries, H, Japan
- Date: Jul 19, 2011 05:35 JST
- Tags: Bathing, Censorship, Fuji TV, Image Gallery, Onsen, Oppai, Oshiri, Tourism, TV



The reputation of Fuji TV’s Motto Onsen ni Ikou for providing both helpful onsen guidance and some rather erotic scenes of female bathing appears to be going as strong as ever, if not more so, as can be seen from some of the latest scenes:
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Japan has beaten the USA for the first time ever in the final match of the Women’s World Cup, prompting the usual sudden and opportunistic interest in football amongst Japanese supporters.
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One of Lady Gaga’s recent outings on Japanese TV has been the cause of a minor Internet sensation on 2ch and elsewhere – as ever, thanks largely to her astonishing fashion sense.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jun 25, 2011 10:48 JST
- Tags: Aya Hirano, Cosplay, Idol, Image Gallery, New York, Pantsu, Seiyuu, TV, USA



Aya Hirano has revealed she actually lived in New York for several years as an infant, and paid a visit there for the benefit of TV audiences – meeting some of the Big Apple’s creepiest otaku denizens along the way.
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It is being claimed that girls are now more interested in male-marketed shonen manga than in the shoujo manga publishers think they are supposed to be reading.
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